1. Outline for today Midterm Essay Question
Review of midterm evaluation of teaching
Brief intro to thinking about terrorism
Guest lecture by:
Commander William Peffley, US Navy
Worked at Guantamano Bay detention center at Guantanamo Bay Naval Base

2. Midterm evaluation of teaching feedback
More on the readings
More current events
Study guide for exam – coming up
No-credit I-clicker “surveys” in class
More multimedia
Avoid rushing end of lecture
All good points, will try to address, and THANKS!

4. Midterm exam advice Bring Exam books Don’t cheat
Avoid talking about “realist” / “feminist” states
Realists do not say “war all the time” but states “constantly ready to go to war if needed”
Think through evidence and how you can use it to show that you understand the theories
Try to show all theories have some validity by picking good evidence that shows they do
Use examples from readings, lectures, NYT – but clearly show what they are examples of!!

5. Terrorism

6. Which of these is the clearest example of terrorism?
Palestinian bombings in Israel
Slavery
9/11 Attacks
Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Irish Republican Army bombings

7. Which of these best distinguishes terrorism from murder or deaths in war?
Who is responsible?
What do they want to achieve?
What tactics are they using?
Who are the targets and who is the audience?

10. Criteria to distinguish “terrorism” from “other human-on-human violence”
Who is responsible?
What do they want to achieve?
What tactics are they using?
Who are the targets and who is the audience?
Do these criteria allow you to distinguish terrorism from military attacks, murder, and other “human-on-human violence?”

11. Examples of human-on-human violence: which are terrorism?
Slavery, and later, the Ku Klux Klan
Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Irish Republican Army
Oklahoma City Bombing
Hamas and Intifada fighters
9/11 Attacks
Radical Leftist Anti-war activists
Systematic rape and abuse of women
ELF: Environment Liberation Front and eco-saboteurs
White cops killing African-American motorists
Colorado Springs Planned Parenthood bombing in December 2015
San Bernardino killing in December 2015

12. Terrorism NOT Terrorism CRITERIA Who is responsible?
What do they want to achieve?
What tactics are they using?
Who are the targets and who is the audience?
Terrorism
NOT Terrorism

13. How does terrorism fit (or not) with 3 theories from course
Realism - doesn’t expect non-state actors to play important roles but does expect violence as useful and fungible
Institutionalism - institutions have an important role to play in allowing US to operate effectively in its fight against terrorism (Walt). Nonstate actors play a far more important role in institutionalist thought.
Disenfranchised –marginalization, oppression, and disempowerment of groups based on identity as source/breeding ground of terrorism. If you take everything away from people then terrorism may be the only tool they have.

14. Guantanamo Detention Center

15. A personal account of interacting with terrorists
Commander (and Dr/) William Peffley
University of Oregon
Pre-med BS in Psychology
Former member of the joint task Guantanamo bay